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Dylan MacNiven’s proposal to turn the long-vacant Marina Degaussing Station into a down-home neighborhood fish shack has run into a buzzsaw of NIMBY-style opposition from some in the neighborhood he’s aiming to serve. In Thursday’s paper, MacNiven tells The Chronicle’s Sam Whiting that the proposal is currently in a holding pattern.

MacNiven, who has a boat in the marina a few hundred feet from the proposed location, tells Whiting, “We were walking by one day and there was a little sign in the window that said, “Would you like to put a restaurant here?” It was a solicitation from Rec and Park. We answered it and we won,” adding “We don’t blast loud music. We don’t have a bar. We’re not trying to be a hip, trendy, cool cutting-edge thing. We just want to be a solid business where people can come enjoy regional cuisine.”

He also shares the meaning of his name and reveals more about his “Amazing Race” brother, Tyler.